REBEL ROUNDUP dives into Pierre Poilievre’s push for Alberta’s energy dominance, clashing with provinces like B.C., Manitoba, and Quebec over cross-Canada pipelines tied to Trump’s U.S. policies. Nova Scotia’s $25K-fine hiking ban sparks outrage, mirroring COVID-era overreach, while border security failures—like RCMP releasing illegal migrants—highlight immigration chaos, including a $25M cocaine smuggler at Blue Water Bridge. Poilievre’s deportation plans and net-negative migration face skepticism as Alberta’s anger boils over federal taxes, equalization, and free speech restrictions, not just oil caps. The episode underscores how Canada’s energy and immigration crises reveal deeper cracks in federal-provincial trust and governance. [Automatically generated summary]
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Yeah.
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I have a space heater on in my studio because the weather is so unpredictable.
It was like 26 degrees yesterday and 15 degrees today.
So that's the weather of the world.
Let's get into the very first thing here today.
And that is the crazy, crazy Nova Scotia legislation.
Crazy Nova Scotia Legislation00:15:55
And Lisa and I reacted to alleged conservative premier Tim Houston making the announcement yesterday because he doesn't just ban people from using public lands.
And look, I'm all for like, don't do anything intrinsically incendiary.
And that's a very specific term.
Don't have fires when the fire risk is high.
Don't throw your cigarette butts, that sort of stuff.
But he is banning people from fishing and hiking as though your shoes might cause the electricity in the air to result in a lightning strike.
But he also warns people from using the woods on their own property as if someone's going to burn down their own forest on purpose.
It was just crazy.
And he said, we don't want to see a repeat of 2023.
Well, what have you done since 2023 to make sure that there's no repeat, by the way?
Because you're the guy who manages the public lands, not the people.
They steward it and take care of it when they use it, but you're actually the guy in charge of making sure that it's not an additional fuel load.
And Lion Advocacy on X, who is Viva Fry's brother, is a lawyer.
He says the Nova Scotia source legislation for the Don't Take a Hike proclamation is actually more draconian than the government is letting on.
A one-week hiking trip could, in theory, lead to $3.5 million in fines, $500,000 per day, and 3.5 years in jail, six months for each hiking day.
And then he dug it up in case we didn't want to take his word for it.
Restricted travel zone, where whenever deemed necessary for the protection of the woods, what does that even mean?
The minister may at any time by proclamation set aside for any period of time a restricted travel zone in any area of woods.
And so he doesn't make a distinction here, like public land, your own land, upon which no person shall enter for the purpose of traveling, camping, fishing, picnicking, or any other purpose without a travel permit.
A travel permit may be issued by the minister, a conservation officer, another person authorized by the minister.
Subsections one and two, okay, do not apply to the owner or occupier of the woods or the servants, agents, or assigns thereof, conservation officers, surveyors, and any other person designated from time to time by order of the minister.
A forest travel permit may be canceled or suspended at any time by the minister, a conservation officer, or any other person authorized by the minister.
And this is the new legislation, effective 4 p.m. October or August 5th, and ending October 15th, unless revoked early.
Or if COVID were any indication, unless the government sees fit to extend indefinitely or perpetually or intermittently, because this is really COVID lockdowns just repackaged as a climate lockdown.
And of course, for your safety and for the well-being of all, that is what these things are being done under the guise of.
And I think this just gives so many people who, you know, even though it was four or five years ago, the COVID restrictions and the lockdowns and the stay-at-home orders and the various gathering restrictions, this, I think, gives people a lot of PTSD just seeing these things come back out, but under the guise of protecting the forest from fires, I guess.
Yeah, I mean, it's crazy because we know that a lot of these fires are started by arson.
And so banning hikers from the woods, those they aren't the arsonists.
The arsonists are going to do the arson either way.
A lot of this stuff is caused by lightning strikes.
Banning a hiker from the woods does not prevent lightning strikes.
And I know we watched it yesterday, but this piece of legislation does not actually comport with how I heard Tim Houston describe it yesterday because he did make specific reference to your own land.
And so can we, I know I'm sort of putting you on the spot, Olivia, can we bring that up?
Because I was like, I live in the woods.
Like I live in the middle of a hayfield and then off to the west of my hayfield, woods.
Like I live quite literally where the grasslands crash into the boreal forest and I'm happy about that.
No politician is going to keep me under out of my own woods.
I have trails cut in there.
The kids ride their quads in the trails.
If there's a high fire risk, of course we don't have the ATVs out to burn down our own property.
But let's just listen to this because maybe I heard it wrong yesterday, but I remember hearing absolutely crazy advice from Tim Houston thinking he could tell people to stay out of their own trees.
Effective 4 p.m. today, we're telling Nova Scotians, stay out of the woods.
We are restricting travel and activities that really aren't necessary for most of us.
Hiking, camping, fishing, and the use of vehicles in the woods are not permitted.
Trail systems through woods are off limits.
Camping is allowed, but only in official campgrounds.
The fine for violating any of these bans is the same as the fine for the ban on burning, $25,000.
And if you're a smoker, for God's sakes, be mindful of where you're butting your butt out.
If you don't and you cause a fire, we will hold you accountable.
So what does this mean if you have a home or cottage surrounded by a wooded area?
We strongly encourage you to stay out of those woods, regardless of where they are.
Please don't do anything that could unnecessarily put you, your family, or your neighbors at risk.
This situation sucks.
Summer is one of the best times in Nova Scotia, and we all look forward to getting outdoors and enjoying our scenic beauty that surrounds us.
I get that.
And I'm right there with you as Nova Scotians.
But you can still go to the beach.
In fact, that's a great place to be on these hot, dry days.
Just no bombs.
Unless you have to go through the bushes.
If there's a short trail to get from point A to point B, like from the parking to the beach or to the lake to fish, that's fine.
But that's it.
No heading into the woods to spend time there.
I know it's inconvenient.
I know it's the height of summer vacation and people want to do all the activities that we so much enjoy in our great outdoors.
We have a beautiful province.
I know everybody wants to enjoy it.
I think that's enough.
But we have to stay out of the woods.
So I did hear Wright.
He said, if your house is surrounded by woods, also stay out of those woods.
Now, I don't think he can't find you according to his legislation, but he didn't make that clear in his announcement.
And then he says, like, if there's a short trail, like, you know, like 50 meters from the parking lot to the, to the lake to go fishing, you can do that.
But he also banned fishing.
So I don't think he even knows what he's saying.
Yeah.
Typical politics speak.
And he says, like, I know this isn't, this isn't convenient.
This is inconvenient.
Well, it's not just inconvenient.
This is draconian nanny state to take action after suffering through two years, 2020 into 2021 and a little bit even into 2022.
I mean, some of the COVID era mandates still persist to this day.
So this is just more of the same from the same governments who, you know, claim to be, we're all in this together.
And I like that actually Daniel Freiheit of Lion Advocacy, he points out in that string of tweets, I think it's or posts, I should say.
I think it's the third one down.
He says, well, the crown would never pursue such absurd charges for a one-week hike, would they?
Checks notes, double checks, seven-year custodial sentence being sought for leech slash barber mischief trial, the longest mischief trial in Canada's history, I might add.
I mean, okay, maybe the crown would seek it, but they'd never get it.
Then he says, Canada, people, Canada.
So like, don't hold your breath because what the government wants, they will get.
And I think I don't remember where else I saw it.
I saw pastors taken away in handcuffs by the by the government of the premier that made it part of Canada's official foreign policy to defend people against religious persecution at the hands of the state.
For example, I don't think Jason Kenney can go to China given his strong condemnation when he was in Harper's cabinet over the treatment of Uyghurs and Christians by the Chinese government.
And yet, first opportunity he got in Alberta, he was like, yeah, close the churches, take away Pastor James Coates in handcuffs.
So yeah, let us not forget the lessons of the last five years.
Exactly.
Well, and people are like, oh, well, isn't this a charter violation, right?
Because we're supposed to have freedom of mobility and assembly and all these things, but not if COVID, again, taught us anything.
Not if they want to invoke that reasonable clause that justifies restricting all of your previously held and thought that we had indefinitely chartered rights.
So no, this is not necessarily a charter violation because they can just justify it and use your tax dollars to do so.
So either way, Canadians pay.
And people can say like, oh, this is a violation of my section six charter right.
That's your freedom of mobility.
And that is indeed true.
But so was banning you from flying across one of the largest countries on the face of the earth to visit your dying mother, which is what happened during COVID if you were unvaccinated or if you didn't want to produce your vaccination status in solidarity with people who were not.
So we can say these things are charter right violations all they want, but they will impose them and then they might be overturned after the fact, as is the case with the Emergencies Act, right?
Like the Emergencies Act, we all knew it was unconstitutional, the use of it against peaceful protesters in the nation's capital.
But that was not determined until after people's bank accounts were seized and peaceful protesters were arrested or taken out of town and left by police in minus 40 with no jackets and after grandmothers were trampled by the police horses.
So, you know, by the time we figure out that this is unconstitutional, it'll be November, you know.
Or of next year or three years from now.
And, you know, taking out of the COVID playbook, once again, the Ministry of Natural Resources has put out a post calling people to snitch on their neighbors.
If you see something that looks like a violation of the burn ban or woods restrictions, please report it to us by calling and there's their number.
And please remember that some people will have travel permits to go into the woods primarily to work.
So yeah, just promoting that climate of snitching on your neighbors, but also being like, only rat on them cautiously because some of them may have applied for our absurd travel permit to go into the woods.
Is just next level.
You know, as we say, climate lockdowns.
Covid 2.0 was the test grounds for the next phase which, I argue, is this here and now also.
None of this makes sense.
So if you have to go into the woods for work, let's say you work in forestry.
Uh, I would say that forestry is less intrinsically safe that's a industry term than fishing, because in these uh high fuel load areas this is one of the things we learned about Jasper is that they, the federal government, let the park get so dry and the fuel load so high that they were worried that mechanical clearing would ignite the forest.
Like going in there with chainsaws and logging equipment and dozers to clear the forest would cause a spark that would ignite the forest.
So Tim Houston's nonsense doesn't make any sense to me, because if it's so dangerous that someone can't go there and cast a reel, then how could you allow logging activity in the forest?
Also, is he banning logging?
Do you people know?
Is he doing that?
Um, let me know in the comments if he's doing that, because at least that would be consistent.
Like look, I don't want that done, but at least it would be consistent.
And I just think this is uh, governments love the taste of power and we knew that they wouldn't want to just forget all the lessons they learned during covet.
You can get people to snitch on other people, you can ban people from traveling, you can control them and everything that they do and lock them indoors.
And here we are doing it all over again, just different reason.
Well, and this veteran has uh, a fun.
Take Jeff Evely Evolie.
Um, he took to x to post a little.
I don't know if we'll play all of it uh, but it's about a two and a half minute video breaking down the woods ban because it causes fire.
And he says, here's how it works, they put up caution tape.
Hey everybody, Jeff Evely, here i'm in Petersfield Provincial Park in the most tyrannical province of Canada, which is Nova Scotia, with my fuzzy friend Axel, where we walk pretty much every single morning, and here you can see that this area is taped off because that trail is the woods.
But this area is not taped off because that's not the woods.
This area is taped off because that's the woods and there is a sign here that says trail closed due to extreme fire hazards.
So that is the woods.
This area is not the woods.
This area is the woods, exactly.
This area is not the woods.
This area is the woods.
This area is not the woods.
This area is the woods.
This area is not the woods.
Oh my gosh.
It's basically just two and a half minutes of pointing out the absolute nonsensical nature of this ridiculous new legislation.
Covid Restrictions in Parks00:04:08
You know, Sheila, as you said, it just doesn't make any sense.
It was like the COVID restrictions we had here in Ontario.
Gatherings of five or more were not allowed.
And I remember going out with my family and there was six of us.
And, you know, we all live in the same household, but because we were over that five or more person threshold, we had the police called on us.
This was like very early days, like beginning of April 2020.
We went to the local rock pebble beach to throw rocks into the water because there was quite literally nothing else to do.
They also closed the forests and all of the like outdoor public outdoor spaces.
And so we went down to this small little like hidden tucked away beach to throw rocks in the water with my kids who have been cooped up inside for almost a month, and which was, I guess, for their health.
And someone called the police because we had six people outside during a restriction order of five people.
Only five people or less were allowed to be outdoors gathering in a group.
And it was like absolutely absurd.
We all live together.
So it's like, what, we're allowed to congregate inside when we live in the house, but we're not allowed to come outside and stretch and get some fresh air.
And then this is supposed to be for our health and safety.
These are the things that the government does that just don't make sense at all.
And then they promote you to snitch on your neighbors when they're like, wait a minute, this doesn't make sense.
So I'm not going to abide by this.
And then you get your snitch lines and that become overrun with these Karens who become so empowered by the fact that they can like do their part.
And it's like this moral superiority that they feel.
And then the police can no longer, you know, respond to actual crime because they're having someone who's walking on the edge of a restricted forest, but that's because it butt up with the other forest that wasn't restricted.
It just doesn't make any sense.
Yeah.
I mean, they exactly did this during COVID.
And I remember the Alberta government complained about it.
Like it was so bad that Jason Kenney's government complained about it.
The national parks closed.
I don't know if they, they couldn't have done it in all the parks, but they closed the highway that runs through Elk Island National Park.
And it's a secondary highway and they had, they have gates.
They can close it.
There are ways that you can go around the park.
It doesn't block.
It's not like Banff and Jasper where there's like literally one way through the park to get to the other side.
But this is the shortcut the locals used to get from Highway 16 to Lamont.
And a lot of people use it for work and stuff.
And during COVID, they closed the park gates.
And that was in late March, early April in Alberta.
So the dead of winter.
They closed the park gates.
Like, what do you think we're doing?
Breathing out the windows to give COVID to the bison during the dead of winter here in Alberta.
But that's how these people are just crazy.
They're crazy.
And I don't trust the government to manage the parks anyway.
I don't believe that we should have parks.
I think it should be land for everybody to beat.
Well, they've shown that they're not able to manage the parks because the gas are fire with any indication.
Just more inept failures by the government tasked with and paid to do this management.
We have a super chat here from Nana Awake who gives $10 and says these forest lockdowns are only the beginning.
Hypothetically, what if my horses or cows escaped and went into the forest off my property?
When good people do and say nothing, communism grows.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, and when good, well-meaning and moral superiority people call the cops to snitch on their neighbors, communism also grows.
Calling All Journalists!00:05:21
So thanks, Nana Awake, for yourself.
The system can't stay active unless people are actively participating in it.
And that's why I thought, you know, those people who were, you know, for whatever reason, they chose vaccination, but they didn't participate in the vaccine passport program.
They just thought, if my friends can't go out and have a drink, I'm not going either.
My friends can't fly.
I'm not going either.
Those are the people who pull the system apart.
They're the conscientious objectors and then the people who made a choice, but stand in solidarity with the other people.
Yeah, the Stasi couldn't do their job without the snitches.
They just couldn't.
They can't be everywhere.
So, you know, anyway, let's get an ad break and we'll come back and talk about our birthday party.
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All right, I should tell you that we did extend the date of this uh, applications for the student journalism conference.
But I can't remember what we extended the date to um, I think it was the seventh.
Let me just see.
Is it online anywhere?
Yeah um, apply now.
Let me just see and make sure it's updated here so and you can go to studentjournalismconference.com.
Uh sunday, august 10th, so you have a couple got till sunday.
Also, I know that we have been getting some complaints from people who are outside of the age range of what we have determined to be a student, i'm going to give you a little advice.
If you are interested in journalism and you believe yourself to be doing journalism and uh, there are a couple of ways that uh, we'll ask you to not prove that, but show examples of your work to us.
If you want to join the Independent Press Gallery OF Canada look, i'm the president over there.
So uh, Independent Press Gallery OF Canada, just google that, you'll find it.
Um, if you want resources, skills development um, training as far as defamation, training what Tamara and I sat through as part of Rebel NEWS today, we we offer that over there at the Independent Press Gallery and it's only ten dollars a year.
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Okay, all right, and I see we just have a super chat to get to before we move on.
Expropriation Troubles00:06:39
I think it kind of relates to the property, um, the Nova Scotia government trying to infringe on people's what they do with their property.
Uh, this comes from PSCO, field 10.
Hey, Sheila Corey Morgan talked yesterday about Canadians needing real property rights in an independent Alberta.
Can you please explain how those currently do not work in Canada?
Now thanks um yeah, so we don't have property rights in Canada.
If you look at our charter rights, we do not have rights to our own property, which opens us up to expropriation as a gun owner.
Right now, we're experiencing this right now, where the firearm you bought completely lawfully it complied with the law at the time through the stroke of a pen while you were sleeping.
A lot of times you wake up in the morning and all of a sudden you are in uh, possession of an illegal firearm, which is big, big trouble, huge trouble.
So you have done nothing, you've become a criminal.
Your lawfully obtained property is all of a sudden criminalized and then the government says, oh well, don't worry about it, we'll buy it from you.
Well, I don't.
I don't have any rights to my property if i'm being forced to sell it to the government for what the government decides it's worth, or I go to jail.
That's just one example of how we don't have property rights in this country.
Your land can be expropriated by the municipality if they decide, oh well, we're going to use it for something?
Um, we even see the expropriation of land being abused by the municipality saying oh, we're going to expropriate your land, your farmland or whatever and we'll pay you what we think it's worth, and then we are going to sell it to a developer for more money.
Why?
Because that high density housing they're going to put on it is going to generate more tax revenue for the municipality.
Um, in a country with real property rights, that wouldn't happen.
Um, we just saw bank accounts being frozen during uh, the Freedom Convoy for political opinions.
Your, your money is your property um, and it cannot be just expropriated from you for political reasons.
Um, when you're not guilty of any sort of crime, you're your.
Your property is just taken from you.
These are all ways that Canadians do not have property rights and in a real country, we would protect those things.
Yeah, and I did a report on this that just sparked my uh memory in 2023.
I just shared the link to it in the channel if we want to show it on screen.
But um, a homeowner in the town next to me in Port Hope is having, or was having, their property mandated to be acquired by the Ontario government um, for the second time in 20 years to so that the government could expand the 401 right along the perimeter of their property.
And they were coming in saying you know what?
We don't really have a say.
They actually weren't even offering them any financial compensation to take their land, which was a sliver off of their property, but their home has already been expanded onto their property, rather has already been expanded onto once before, and it puts their house so close to this four lane highway which is going to be expanded into their property.
Value is just yeah, there they are the original time that it was expanded onto their property.
So no, we don't have property rights in this country.
And for anybody who who wants to check out that story I think I did a follow-up as well um, because finally, after this story hit, the government actually backed off and I think they're probably just waiting out the homeowner, because they are an elderly couple sadly.
Um, they're just yeah, they'll just wait them out and then, as soon as they go, they'll snatch up that entire piece of land and use it as they may.
But the homeowner said, you know, it's a white elephant and they were getting nowhere.
They finally came to the media and then the government backed off.
Actually, maybe I should should reach out to them see if there's a follow-up there, because this is uh, you know, two years ago.
Maybe some things changed, because I see them doing doing the clearing now for this 401 expansion.
And they're going to basically put like a major route.
You'll see in the report, there's a bridge there that you have to go under to get to their property.
And the government or the highway will be expanded there.
And that will turn into a major route and off ramp.
And their property butts right up against that newly, that proposed intersection.
So anyway.
Also, if we truly ever owned our property, then why do we pay taxes until we die on it, right?
Because if you don't pay your taxes, they'll come in and they'll see, you know, they'll put a lien on your property, on your house, what have you.
So if we really owned the land, then why do we perpetually pay tax on it?
Yeah.
Well, and if you're a farmer, if you've ever tried to drain a waterway that is making your land unusable, let's say for hay, and you want to trench it, you can get in trouble for that.
So the laws in this country say that you can use the water on your own land, but you don't actually own the water and you're not able to really, you don't have ownership of the water itself.
You don't have the ability to impede public access to navigable waterways.
And the government can declare anything navigable, even a seasonal runoff stream.
If people want to just come onto your land to use the seasonal stream and the government has decided that it's navigable, you can't stop them.
Worse still, the government water inspectors can just wander around all over your property all the time.
In a real country with real property rights, that stuff wouldn't go on.
Yeah, that's what was happening to this property owner too, the government.
Like the surveyors were just coming onto his property unannounced without even asking, staking it and doing various surveying.
And he was really frustrated and had really gotten nowhere.
And then, of course, that's where media comes in.
So they seemed to back off for a little bit, at least temporarily after we did that report.
And of course, I reached out to the other side and tried to get comment.
But typical bureaucracy, there's just no answers anywhere and they'll just do as they please and eventually hope that you give up, which most people sadly do.
Energy Needs and Immigration00:15:39
Yeah.
Anyway, we should tell everybody about our birthday party and then we'll quickly try to get to, I'll let you lead the second half of the show and get us back on track because we're over time.
But our birthday party is coming up.
And actually we added a second birthday party to the schedule of events.
So first one is Calgary, September 18th.
The second one is Toronto, October 16th.
You can get your tickets at happybirthdayrebel.com.
All your favorite rebels, including our musical performer, at least in Calgary, Tamara Leach.
We're turning 10.
Our death has been predicted many, many times.
But over the last 10 years, we have really, I think we've broken the system.
And a lot of people have sort of fallen in behind us.
But we were really the first major independent news outlet in this country.
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Yeah.
All right.
So moving along, we have allegedly conservative, progressive, conservative.
He just has heavy on the progressive.
Yeah, heavy on the progressive, questionably conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, has announced that just today, Ontario, Alberta, and Saskatchewan took the next step toward building new cross-Canada pipelines that will protect our energy security and apparently secure tens of thousands of jobs for Canadian workers.
Of course, all of this is because of Trump, not because we're actually wanting to like develop Canadian resources and be energy independent and all these things we could have been doing and harnessing for decades.
No, it's now in response to Trump taking direct aim, he says, at our economy.
Canadians are uniting like never before to protect our country and our workers.
But sneaky little detail here.
It sounds really great on its face, right?
It's like, okay, yeah, great.
Today they're taking steps and the steps are not actually action.
So if you follow that link, the government is actually just releasing a request for proposal to conduct a feasibility study exploring how to best establish a new economic and energy corridor.
So like they're not doing anything tangible to like break ground and get anything going now.
They're just putting out a tender bid for somebody to do a survey.
Also, what are we going to do?
We're going to burrow under Manitoba because Wab Canoe is not on side with this.
So what are we going to do?
This is all just nonsense and talk and money wasted on an RFP because how do we get around the fact that Mark Kearney has given the anti-provinces a veto over this stuff?
British Columbia and Manitoba and Quebec have said no, thank you.
And so what does that really mean?
If we're going to act like a bunch of Balkan countries, okay, then let us be a Balkan country and we'll just start negotiating with the United States directly as a free and independent Alberta then.
Yeah, it's so funny because he says right in there, Canadians are uniting like never before.
And it's like, well, maybe you have three of the provinces on board, but where is everybody else?
Because they're not united at all on this.
Right.
And we've always been united on this issue.
Like Alberta and Saskatchewan getting along on issues of trade and oil and gas and agriculture.
That's not new.
And like when there are conservatives in power in Ontario, we get along with them too.
Again, not new.
We're not more united, actually.
I think we're the divisions are greater than ever before.
And they played out in the last election.
Yeah, exactly.
And I mean, honestly, I'm surprised to see Ontario start to join forces with Alberta and Saskatchewan.
And don't get me wrong, I'm here for it.
But Ford, you know, he tends to be more progressive than he is conservative.
So yeah, but how do you avoid Manitoba?
I mean, that's right in the wedge between Saskatchewan and Ontario.
So what do we do here?
Right, right.
We've got a video from Polyev who is asked about Alberta's separation.
And he gives a peculiar answer that I fundamentally disagree with.
Now, I don't disagree with how.
Okay, I'll explain.
You watch and I'll tell you why I just disagree with this.
Introducing the Canadian Sovereignty Act today.
How often are you encountering Alberta separatism sentiment through the campaign?
And what have those conversations been like?
Well, I'm loving the campaign.
having a lot of fun actually.
I love the people of Battle River Crowfoot.
They're the people who feed power and protect our country, feed through the great ranchers and farmers, power through the incredible oil and gas industry.
Most of all, the Hardesty tank farm, which moves $90 billion of energy products.
That's more than the GDP of many countries.
And this is a town of what, 600 people.
And of course, it protects our country with the people, the great men and women who serve at CFB Wainwright.
So I'm having a lot of fun.
I'm meeting a lot of people who are very angry about the way that the federal government has abused and mistreated Alberta.
And what they're saying is the era of pay up and shut up has got to come to an end.
Alberta deserves a better deal within Canada.
And one of the ways we make that happen, one of the ways we unite our country is to produce our resources.
The oil and gas workers who are suffering, living in very tough conditions right now because there's just not enough work, despite the global oil boom, all they want is to get a job where they can go and make the whole country richer.
So, you know, I met a guy the other day.
He's an oil and gas worker.
He was doing very well up until about 10 years ago.
Now he's paying, he's got to split a mobile home with a friend.
He's in his 40s or 50s and he can't afford his own place.
And it's because he can't, there's just not enough work.
All of this is the direct result of the federal government banning oil and gas production through C69, C48, the energy cap, the industrial carbon tax.
And we could go on and on and on.
If you unlock the power of the energy sector to make all Canadians richer, I can tell you Albertans will be more than happy to continue to contribute to this country.
And it would be the greatest thing we could do to unite all Canadians.
Thank you.
Okay.
Now, the points he raises are true about the reasons that Albertans are disgruntled.
Like our gruntels have left the building.
We don't have them anymore.
We have been disabused of any of our gruntals.
But I disagree with the statement that Albertans want to make all of Canada rich.
We're done with that.
We have paid more than our fair share into Confederation for absolutely nothing in return but abuse.
So to say, oh, we just want to make everybody rich, you just have to get out of our way and let us, I think we're over that.
That was maybe a 10-year ago, five-year ago, maybe even three year ago idea of what was the Alberta mindset.
I believe it has drastically shifted since then.
And I find it interesting that Polyev forgot to mention that besides the, I drove through Hardesty on the weekend, by the way.
And it is true.
Little tiny town of 600 people.
And it is just beautiful tank farms.
You just think about the just the economic wealth flowing through that town.
And that was supposed to be actually the genesis of the Keystone XL pipeline that we just can't manage to get done.
But yeah, we don't want to make all of Canada rich anymore.
And he forgot to mention that Battle River Crowfoot is coal country and we're not allowed to use that coal thanks to the NDP colluding with the Trudeau government to shut down our coal resources.
That is, I mean, it's billions and billions and billions of dollars being left in the ground in these communities.
Good jobs being phased out.
And he's not even talking about that.
And I think that is also outrageous and it fosters our anger.
Yeah.
And just to hit on the other headliner here, too, people are saying, you know, Polyev needs to just focus his efforts on immigration because without that being reined in pretty much immediately or, you know, several months or two years, three years ago, none of the other stuff matters.
And so we did have this other video to share, to show that he plans to put forward this massive omnibus, omnibus vote to repeal almost all of these anti, these liberal anti-business laws, including pipeline bans, vehicle, gas vehicle bans, et cetera.
People are saying that doesn't matter because he needs to focus on immigration.
And so I see- Immigration is an anti-business policy at this point.
Over-immigration is an anti-business policy.
It is hurting young Canadians.
It's the people who are trying to get those entry-level jobs.
Those are the people being hurt.
So we have a generation of people not being able to get work experience because we are importing an underclass that drives our wages down.
And that has to be dealt with.
Exactly.
And we have this clip here that just came in from Polyev saying that Canada actually needs negative levels of immigration.
Okay, so great.
Perfect.
This is what we're talking about.
Yeah.
Thanks for taking my question, Keane.
Juno News.
I'd like to ask about immigration.
Nigel Farage in the United Kingdom has been quite popular recently.
He might even be prime minister if an election was held today with his plan to deport illegal migrants across the channel.
Donald Trump, same thing.
He just launched a father-son recruitment campaign for ICE.
It seems like the entire Western world, including the Liberals, have realized that out-of-control immigration is a problem.
But Canada's the only country without a solution to fix it.
And you don't have sovereignty without control of the borders.
So I'm wondering what your plan is to fix it and get illegal migrants out of this country.
Thank you.
Well, anyone who has been deemed inadmissible needs to leave and they need to be deported.
Anyone who has commits a crime while they're in Canada, they need to be immediately detained.
And when their detention is complete, they need to be deported from the country.
We need to track down the roughly 600 criminals that the Liberals have lost track of.
That means using all our security agencies to find out where they are, to locate them, arrest them, put them on planes, get them out of Canada.
We need to make it clear that anyone who commits a hate crime or an act of violence against an identifiable group that is not a citizen and not a permanent resident needs to be deported from this country.
We need to get rid of the incentives for people to come here that are not real refugees.
So we need a review of all the benefits that go to people who come as asylum claimants to make sure they're not getting more benefits than Canadian taxpayers get.
And those that arrive last should be their cases should be treated first so that they know that they'll be leaving quickly.
That will get the message back to the country of origin that if you come to Canada and you're not a real refugee, your case will be heard in a few weeks and you'll be back in your own country.
That would, right now, there's the opposite incentive.
People who are not real refugees come into Canada and they say, well, even if I'm rejected, I'll have seven or eight years of appeal during which time they get all kinds of benefits.
It's very clear that they're going to be there that they would be sent back within a couple of weeks.
They wouldn't come in the first place.
We need to secure our borders to stop the crossings.
And more broadly on immigration, we need to bring way down the numbers of international students, of temporary foreign workers that are flooding our markets with low-wage labor.
The big corporations love it because they can drive down wages for Canadian youth who are facing unprecedented unemployment.
The temporary foreign worker program was not meant to drive down wages.
It was meant to fill jobs that Canadians could not or would not do, particularly in agriculture.
Now it's just become a full purpose thing that Starbucks or anyone else can use to drive wages down.
If they're having a hard time getting Canadian youth working, what they need to do is raise wages.
So we need to cut back on the temporary foreign worker program.
And finally, the overall number needs to go down.
Over the next several years, we actually need more people leaving than coming.
That's net negative migration.
And so that's what I've said.
We've got these millions of people whose visas are going to come up.
When their visas run out, they're not eligible to stay.
They need to be told to leave.
And if they don't leave, then obviously they need to be deported.
And that will allow us our housing, health care, and jobs to catch up with the number of people in our country.
Thank you.
Yeah, that is just so on point for all of the things that are needed right now to address this.
Really like this societal collapse that is just looming if this continues on the trajectory that it has been, and get this next generation entering the workforce back to having some opportunity in this, the country that they were, were born and raised in.
Um, it's the.
Even looking at the youth unemployment in Ottawa specifically 20 the national average is almost 11 percent.
Yeah, somewhere like Ottawa has double youth unemployment where you would think it's a, it's a booming city center.
Now, take that and then throw on top of that the fact that one in five jobs in this country are held by someone who's not a Canadian citizen.
Yeah, the data is damning.
I want and you know it it's clear that companies are abusing this.
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Um, for example, think about when, the last time um, your oil wasn't changed by a temporary foreign worker.
You know if you're using one of the chain places I don't want to name them, but uh, just think about that.
These are jobs that in the before times, these were like your 16 year old automotive students um, down at the local high school and this is how they would sort of get their foot in the door, get a little bit of work experience um, practically apply the skills that they were learning at school.
That does not happen anymore at all at all.
I, I was thinking about it the other day.
I was getting my oil changed and i'm like, when was the last time, Sheila, and uh, when you go and search um, it's uh, when you just I did this I searched LUBE or LUBE, you know like uh, oil change.
And then the lmia program and it's, you know like why?
Why are we bringing in temporary foreign workers from India to change our oil?
Think about it right, like it's just anymore to run all of our TIM Hortons, or to run all of your kids, or work the counter at Mcdonald's these are Canadian kids jobs like high school students jobs.
They're not glamorous, you know.
And as I I interviewed Alexander Brown from the National Citizens, UH Coalition Coalition, thank you.
I always want, I always accidentally want, to say um inquiry, the NCI, but anyway, completely separate things.
Um, and and he says, like he, these aren't glamorous jobs.
My first job, I worked cash at Dollarama at like 15.
These aren't glamorous jobs, but they are entry-level positions where you get your foot in the door to get 14 years old.
The bingo coffee cart at the bingo hall, that was me.
And that was when you could still smoke.
Maybe that's where my love of nicotine, but as a non-smoker came from.
But I smelled like cigarettes.
My skin was probably yellow.
I probably had bingo fingers just from taking their money, you know, like just yellow.
But that was my first job.
And it taught me work ethic and how to interact with different people, people I would never come across with in my regular life.
It just sort of teaches you people skills more than anything.
I feel like I already had a work ethic.
I was a farm kid who wanted a job at 14, but just to interact with other people, that's an important skill that I don't think a lot of young people have these days.
Exactly.
And just, yeah, it gets your, teaches you the people skills, how to handle customers, how to handle cash, which also I'm seeing so much more out of the way.
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They don't know how to count.
They don't have to.
No, they can't get you back change without looking at the computer or at the till when it spits out how much you should be getting back.
And these are skills that are very much needed.
And we need to prioritize, once again, our youth having access to them.
There's another post here that I wanted to throw to you, Melissa Landsman.
Yeah.
Is a provincial member of, sorry, the federal member of parliament, shadow minister.
Is she still a shadow minister?
Maybe I'm off on that one.
She's the deputy leader.
Thank you.
Deputy House Leader.
So here is what the Liberals won't tell you about immigration.
She writes, how many crossed illegally?
How many claimed asylum?
How many ignored deportation, which I think official estimates, right, estimates are anywhere from like 200 to 500,000, just missing across the country.
No big deal.
How many came as temporary workers?
It's a pattern and it makes you wonder why Canadians deserve answers.
And this is in, she reposted shadow immigration minister Michelle Rempel Garner's post about the liberals ceasing to update information regarding the number of people coming into Canada.
And so she has a whole post here.
It's almost five minutes, so we won't go through it.
But yeah, why the bigger, broader question here is why are the liberals hiding these numbers?
Right.
You used to be able to know these things.
And I think the one that they really want to hide from us is how many people came to this country as temporary foreign workers or temporary students and then did the old switcheroo once they got in the door or tried to and then just went missing in the system who got here as working down at the lube shop and then claimed refugee status from India, the world's largest democracy.
And then now are waiting their hearing seven years down the road, wherein they will marry a Canadian citizen, have Canadian children who will then sponsor the entire family over from India.
Yeah, and she's right.
It sure makes you wonder why.
And it's because they never want you to know just how bad the problem is.
Michelle Rempel-Garner has a very unique take on this because I should tell you, she's an economist and she used to serve as the minister of Western Economic Diversification under Stephen Harbor.
So she is also someone who knows how labor market trends are adversely affected by over-immigration.
And it's one of the things she talks about quite frequently.
So I think, I think Pierre Polyev has the right woman at the job for immigration.
And she's not scared to talk about this stuff.
You know, the first thing they say is, you're a racist.
And she's no, these people are being criminal.
They're loose in the country.
She's not scared of those things, which I think is refreshing.
Yeah, she's like, thank you next, but you need somebody powerful and strong and and good on this file.
And whoever?
The latest immigration minister on the liberal side I can't even remember her name uh, Lena Diab, I think it is yeah, and she's like the seventh one in the last what three, four years to be put on such an important file?
It's just the turnover rate of immigration ministers and from the liberals is absolutely mind-boggling.
And that woman was unimpressive right out of the gate.
Um, you know, it's just such a huge file.
It is something Canadians are desperate to have somebody deal with, especially young Canadians.
And she, you know, when they're asking her about people who are in the country illegally and how are you going to get them out, she's like well, they'll just leave.
Like she stood up in the House OF Commons and said something akin to that and it's like if they would just leave, they would you got to go get them, put them on a plane.
Um I, I don't even care if you send them home first class.
It's got to be cheaper than keeping them here.
It has to be if you can find them right that's.
The problem is they're just uh, somewhere in this vast land.
We just don't have any idea where they went to.
Um, and that's another thing that you know Trump has been pointing out as how lackluster Canada's systems are for keeping track of people that should not be in this country and the porousness of our borders, because then they're coming to and fro.
And um, there's a story just posted yesterday that the La Salle police caught a man trying to enter Canada from the?
U.s by kayak, because there's just so many different routes that you can take to come to and from these to between these countries.
Um, one of their officers made an unexpected discovery early wednesday morning, finding a man from the?
U.s.
It was like accidental how they found.
Yes, so he was conducting commercial property checks, which travels along the river's edge of the Detroit River, and they just saw a guy in a kayak with two backpacks coming from the other side.
Like this is.
This is comical stuff yeah, and and so much for the enhanced border security when you're just stumbling upon people crossing illegally.
Um, and if you know, Alexa Lavois and Lincoln Jay's reporting out there in the Quebec border were any indication.
I mean, the RCMP quite literally got stuck in a ditch while they're trying, while they're supposed to be surveying the border crossing um, they have the same cameras that Lincoln and Alexa put up, right?
So where's the action?
You're okay okay, we have all this.
We're, we're we're taking pictures, we're we're surveilling the area.
Well, what are you doing with it?
Well, you can see the same stuff we can.
Where is the action?
I well, and here's the thing, I don't think we should put as much of this on the RCMP as maybe we do because uh, I think they are apprehending them, but they're being told to release them into the country by immigration officials, right.
So I, I think that like, if they are apprehending him and I think I mean, they caught this guy in a backpack, in a kayak, so I mean, but that's just, you know, one example.
But I think they immigration officials say okay well, steps from here, don't detain them.
Ice style, let them go and we'll give them an immigration hearing, even if they crossed into the country illegally.
Like, I don't, I don't know what they're supposed to do.
Yeah that's yeah, that's a a good point.
And until things start to change and I have my severe doubts under Lena Diab that anything will um, it's just more conversations right, I have uh, the the borders are.
Um, i'll have a report out, hopefully later today on.
Oh, look at this what he's doing but yeah, just more conversations.
We're having more conversations as people leave on their own with this.
Just uh, this morning, Kaladin man.
Wait till we hear how Kaladin he is.
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Uh, man charges after charged, after almost 25 million dollars worth of suspected cocaine found hidden in a truck at the Canada U.s border crossing.
Uh, that's street value.
Um, CBSA caught him arriving from the United States at the Blue Water Bridge port of entry in the community of Point Edward.
During inspection of the vehicle's trailer, Border services officers allegedly located seven bags containing bricks of suspected cocaine on car Calci 29 of Caladon.
Yeah, was subsequently arrested and was transferred to the custody of the RCMP.
He's been since charged uh with importation of cocaine, possession of cocaine for The purposes of traffic getting under the Controlled Drugs And Substances Act.
Investigation is ongoing.
Uh, i'd like to know the immigration status of this man.
I bet he is a temporary foreign worker, because trucking is just filled with temporary foreign workers.
Oh, and it's becoming so treacherous out on the the highways here in Ontario, the 401, like the, the amount of of accidents and things that you're seeing now.
Um, it's actually frightening to get on to the 401 at this point, knowing also the complete racket of truck licensing that happens in this province.
Uh, let's get to some of the chats and then we'll wrap up.
We've got one from Cicely Bardoel.
Uh, who's donates just about every single day.
We're so grateful for Cicely.
She gives us five bucks time for my two cents, to my understanding.
Pierre's point is if Ottawa respected Alberta and its resources, we wouldn't want to bolt.
That may have been true, I would say, five years ago, but I think we're past that.
I think Albertans realize that the system is entirely broken and there will not always be a government in Ottawa that is conservative and that respects us.
And so while we would have a short reprieve, We would go back to the same old, same old, being treated as a colony.
But even a colony is better treated than us because a colony, you want to extract the resources from the colony, but they don't even let us do that.
So I get Pierre's point, but I just think it's our mindset has shifted, I think, over the last little bit.
Jay Peterson, also a regular donor to the show, regular VR, 20 bucks.
Pierre seems to think this is all about us working harder for still nothing.
This is about ridiculous federal taxes and equalization, elected and equal senate, free speech, right to bear arms.
This is just a short list.
Yeah, there are, I mean, it's not just about letting us harvest our resources.
It's more than that.
It's not even about finally getting a government that respects us in Ottawa.
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It's, as I said, it's just a temporary fix to a systemic and structural problem that will always be unless we have an or else on the table for these people.
Yeah.
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